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Originally Posted by VRPdommy
The Senate better get hold of this issue and quick !
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Congress basically abdicating their power by creating the War Powers Act.
Only Congress is supposed to be able to declare war and wage war via the Constitution...BUT, they can also enact laws to give the President that ability.
That's why we've had so many fucking wars without actually declaring war ever since WW2.
Hell, even AFTER Pearl Harbor...FDR had to wait until Congress declared war (which they swiftly did) before he could send in the troops in WW2.
These days? Johnson sent in troops to fight the Vietnam War, Reagan sent troops pretty much to any little country he wanted to put in line, Bush Sr. fought the Gulf War, Clinton lobbed missiles at the Serbian conflict and the Iraqi's, Bush Jr. invaded Afghanistan AND Iraq, Obama used drone warfare to slaughter thousands.
And then Trump blew the hell up out of Syria while eating chocolate cake with the Chinese leader.
Whether you agree or disagree with any of those actions is irrelevant. CONGRESS is the problem here.
They wrote law to give away their own powers to the Executive Branch.
They need to repeal that shit and take responsibility again.
Quite simply they don't want to have to make ANY big decisions that could hurt them politically so they have been giving power to the Executive Branch for decades.
